Product Information
Blue Cat's Remote Control is a set of plug-ins that let you control and monitor in real-time several MIDI controllable plug-ins or devices from a single customizable user interface.
The user interface of your favorite plug-in is not satisfying? Your favorite hardware device is too complicated to control? Your project contains hundreds of plug-ins and you would like to control them all from a single user interface? You need undo/redo for all your modifications? You would like to instantly recall all settings of your favorite MIDI devices from your DAW projects? This product was designed for you!
With Blue Cat's Remote Control, you can choose any type of control (switches, faders, joysticks, knobs) or meter, assign a MIDI channel and CC number to each control, customize its response curve. You can as well choose a built-in skin that suits your needs for every instance of the plug-in, or create your own (see the Skins section): this is the best way to create your own user interface to control your entire Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) and external hardware the way you have chosen.
Since the Remote Control can also be controlled via MIDI, you can also use it to remap and transform MIDI messages, from one MIDI CC to another, with different response curves or MIDI channels.
Read our Remote Control Tutorials and see this plug-in in action!
Blue Cat Audio Standards:
- Available as a standalone application and in most plug-in formats for Mac and Windows.
- Full MIDI control and automation support, MIDI Learn.
- No CPU load on idle: processing shuts down when fed with silence (optimal CPU usage).
- Customizable user interface with transparency & zoom.
- Automation and MIDI output: record output parameters as automation curves or send MIDI CC messages to other plug-ins for powerful side chain effects.
- Smooth Bypass: noiseless plug-in activation / deactivation.
- Undo/Redo.
- Full featured integrated presets manager.
- Copy/paste the state of the plug-in between instances.
- Any sample rate supported.
Version 3.2
- Redesigned user interface: create your own grid layouts and choose controls within the user interface.
- More than 40 types of built-in controls (knobs, faders, pads, switches...) with new hi resolution graphics.
- New momentary pad controls.
- Customize the background color of the Remote Control to easily identify instances.
- Multitouch support for Windows (manipulate multiple controls at the same time with several fingers).
- Use tone maps to morph between your presets, and create new tones for remote controlled devices/plug-ins.
- Up to 128 controls available (instead of 64).
- Fixed window opacity changes not shown in plug-in when host application modifies it.
- Fixed selected text in text edit box sometimes not easy to read on Mac depending on the color scheme.
- Fixed text edit boxes sometimes loosing focus when hovering mouse over other controls.
- Improved skin loading time on slow hard drives.
- Minor graphics optimizations and performance improvements for Hi resolution displays.
- Fixed Mac installers not showing brand image in dark mode.
- Windows: multiple GUI display and HiDPI performance improvements.
- Windows accessibility: native system widgets are now scaled according to text size settings on Windows 8 and newer.
- Windows: fixed return key sometimes unexpectedly forwarded to host while typing in a text edit box.
- Windows: fixed context menu not always displayed in the right position when the window spans across several screens with different DPI.
- Fixed revert current preset not always triggering undo properly
- Fixed Audio Inputs/ Outputs selectors should not appear in the app's audio/MIDI settings.
- Use MIDI notes, pitch bend, NRPN, 14-bit CCs, aftertouch or channel pressure MIDI events in addition to existing MIDI CC.
- MIDI thru: let MIDI events go thru the plug-in.
- Application can now synchronize with devices/apps using MIDI Beat Clock or MIDI TimeCode (MTC).
- MIDI settings window can now be resized to display more parameters.
- Optimized MIDI settings window display on Windows (load time and scroll).
- MIDI Settings window now splits parameters into multiple pages for faster access.
- MIDI Settings window now shows custom display names if any.
- New "MIDI Learn Once" command to speed up MIDI learn setup.
- Optimized preset load upon MIDI messages when using several hundreds of user presets.
- Fixed plug-in sending Bank number 0 when loading a preset that is not located in a bank.
- Synchronize transport and BPM with devices/apps using MIDI Beat Clock or MIDI TimeCode (MTC).
- Windows: ASIO driver now keeps running when ASIO Cotro panel is opened from the app audio preferences.
- Windows: the application now follows ASIO driver buffer changes made in the ASIO control panel or external ASIO configuration app.
